Transforming function of the HOX11/TCL3 homeobox gene

Cancer Research

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 337-345

  Hawley, Robert G ^a   Fong, Andrew Z C ^a   Reis, Marciano D ^b   Zhang, Nan ^c   Lu, Ming ^c   Hawley, Teresa S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; HOMEOBOX; LEUKEMOGENESIS; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; T CELL LEUKEMIA; TARGET CELL; VIRUS CELL TRANSFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, VIRAL; FEMALE; GENES, HOMEOBOX; GENETIC VECTORS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LEUKEMIA, T-CELL; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RETROVIRIDAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSFECTION; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0031014272     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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